Consider screening your hypertensive patients for primary aldosteronism!

#TWDFNR: Primary/essential hypertension? Or...primary aldosteronism? JHM Digital Media Fellow Eric Burnett discusses why we might not be screening our patients with elevated blood pressures, and why we should!

https://bit.ly/4pymLv7
#VisualAbstract: Sophie Sun
📹: @Eric

@jhospmedicine.bsky.social is on Bluesky! Check out some of the great visual abstracts!

Oh no! Your patient's white cell count rose!
But wait...you started steroids yesterday! JHM Digital Media Fellow Eric Burnett discusses about why you don't need to react to the leukocytosis too soon!

https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.70008
#VisualAbstract: Catie Glatz
📹: Eric Burnett

It’s amazing how, in just one week, MAGA has shifted its expertise from vaccines and public health to wildfires and forest management, then to aviation safety, and now to tariffs and trade.

Merry Christmas from your friendly neighborhood hospitalist!

Be safe out there :)

Sunset from my office :)

I’m tired of having to be the adult in the room because I’m an educated professional, being forced to entertain every idea as worthy of discussion. Some ideas are dumb and dangerous.

Trump celebrates Biden economy

Happy Sunday! Making sure I post here from time to time :)

We live in a timeline where both of these headlines exist

Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa.

I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:

Help

It was never about sports, just like it was never about the price of eggs, or the economy…

Imma need y’all to stop posting so many of your tasty Thanksgiving recipes online…they look so good and I can’t possible make them all 😭

Don’t make me tap the sign